After spending your entire childhood growing up in an underground shelter, you wake up one day to find your father has abandoned your home, which is forbidden by your society’s leader. After a not so friendly encounter your leader and the security force you manage to escape your home, looking back it was a more of a prison. You open a battered door outside of the cave that the massive entrance to the shelter is located in and you get hit with the warmth of sunlight for the first time in 18 years. As your eyes adjust you see the wasteland of what once a great country, and all you can do is hope that you will survive long enough to find your father in the irradiated city of Washington D.C.
What was just described may sound like someone’s nightmare …show more content…
Those who were unlucky enough to be outside of proper shelter when the bombs and survived became mutated abominations that slowly lose touch with their humanity. Almost all water is now undrinkable due to the radiation. By the time
Fallout 3 takes place, the world seems like a circle in hell.
The story of Fallout 3 follows a young protagonist whom the player creates and watches develop into adulthood through the tutorial inside the heavily fortified and xenophobic underground shelter known as Vault 101. Vault 101 lets no one in or out of the vault, until one day the player’s father escapes and chases after him leaving all they have known and facing the dangers of the wasteland alone, gaining the title “the Lone Wanderer” from a local radio host.
The Lone Wanderer eventually finds their father and his life’s work “Project Purity” where he is close to purifying the waters of the Potomac River. He ends up dying in front of his child, sacrificing himself so that way the Enclave (a group technologically advanced super soldiers who have asserted themselves as the new American government, and have an affinity for violently stopping anyone who opposes their ways or are not purely “human”). The game …show more content…
People do witness atrocities committed by the
Enclave, as an American would witness through the news, but many live behind a veil created by the pseudo governments and armies so they can live “peacefully”.
It is no secret that the United States was racist in the 1950’s, and the same bigotry carries over into the post-apocalyptic dystopia. People are exposed to radiation in the game’s universe do not always die, they grow accustomed to it at the price of not looking human anymore. Their skin and hair fall out and sometimes (not always) they turn feral and attack anything not like them on sight. The wastelanders kindly took to calling these unlucky individuals “ghouls”. Many humans, including the Enclave (whom have sworn to purge the Earth of all irradiated abominations so the world can be as it was) and the Brotherhood of Steel (they say only kill the
hostile non-human creatures), will just execute a ghoul on sight regardless if they are feral or not.
This is of very reminiscent of how the American authorities would treat black people as
What was just described may sound like someone’s nightmare …show more content…
Those who were unlucky enough to be outside of proper shelter when the bombs and survived became mutated abominations that slowly lose touch with their humanity. Almost all water is now undrinkable due to the radiation. By the time
Fallout 3 takes place, the world seems like a circle in hell.
The story of Fallout 3 follows a young protagonist whom the player creates and watches develop into adulthood through the tutorial inside the heavily fortified and xenophobic underground shelter known as Vault 101. Vault 101 lets no one in or out of the vault, until one day the player’s father escapes and chases after him leaving all they have known and facing the dangers of the wasteland alone, gaining the title “the Lone Wanderer” from a local radio host.
The Lone Wanderer eventually finds their father and his life’s work “Project Purity” where he is close to purifying the waters of the Potomac River. He ends up dying in front of his child, sacrificing himself so that way the Enclave (a group technologically advanced super soldiers who have asserted themselves as the new American government, and have an affinity for violently stopping anyone who opposes their ways or are not purely “human”). The game …show more content…
People do witness atrocities committed by the
Enclave, as an American would witness through the news, but many live behind a veil created by the pseudo governments and armies so they can live “peacefully”.
It is no secret that the United States was racist in the 1950’s, and the same bigotry carries over into the post-apocalyptic dystopia. People are exposed to radiation in the game’s universe do not always die, they grow accustomed to it at the price of not looking human anymore. Their skin and hair fall out and sometimes (not always) they turn feral and attack anything not like them on sight. The wastelanders kindly took to calling these unlucky individuals “ghouls”. Many humans, including the Enclave (whom have sworn to purge the Earth of all irradiated abominations so the world can be as it was) and the Brotherhood of Steel (they say only kill the
hostile non-human creatures), will just execute a ghoul on sight regardless if they are feral or not.
This is of very reminiscent of how the American authorities would treat black people as